The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole Novels)

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There's lots to digest, but this character-driven series continues to be strong in plot, action and pacing, and Crais The Last Detective boasts a distinctive knack for a sucker-punch element of surprise. Agent, Aaron Priest. View Full Version of PW. More By and About This Author. Buy this book. But quite honestly, it has the opposite effect for me. It's generally simply done, relying on tropes sociopath killer or the mentally ill killer over full characterization.

As far as I can tell, the three possible reasons for killers to be included at all are as a character study, to add tension, or to titillate with torture porn. I'm thankful that Crais stays away from the latter here, but other than that, it's a miss.

I don't usually scrutinize the plotting too closely in these books. As far as I'm concerned, it passes the first-sniff test.

What I didn't appreciate is Cole's lingering despondency about Lucy and Lucy's push and pull with their relationship. I appreciate that Crais may want to humanize Cole and perhaps give readers another emotional hook, but the combination of Cole's issues surrounding a missing father and ex-girlfriend leaves both of us in an emotionally unpleasant place. If I wanted relationship drama and storm-crossed lovers with unrealistic expectations, I'd read YA.

View all 9 comments. Aug 06, Dan Schwent rated it really liked it Shelves: man-tears , , crime-and-mystery. An old man is gunned down in an alley and his last words were that he was looking for his son, Elvis Cole. Was the old man really the father Elvis never knew?

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That's what Elvis is trying to find out. But will he be able to live with what he finds? In the wake of the events of The Last Detective, the possible appearance of Elvis' unknown father drags him out of his depression and sets him into motion. It An old man is gunned down in an alley and his last words were that he was looking for his son, Elvis Cole.

It makes for a great story. Crais had me flip-flopping on whether or not Faustina was Cole's father for a good portion of the book.

Like The Last Detective before it, The Forgotten Man deviates from the old formula of Cole and Pike stirring things up until the shootout at the end and spends more time exploring Cole's past. Cole has come a long way from being a Spenser ripoff. The friendship of Cole and Pike has been fleshed out quite a bit more in the last couple books and I had to fight back some man tears at the end. While they aren't as in love as Spenser and Hawk are, I find their relationship much more believable than Cole and Lucy's.

Speaking of Lucy, she's beginning to annoy me as much as Susan Silverman. Not to spoil anything but I wish she'd stop vagina-blocking Starkey and let her and Cole get together.

There is one thing in recent Elvis Cole books I'm not a fanatic about and that's the increasingly frequent changes in viewpoint from Elvis to one of the supporting cast. It's not bad and actually heightens the suspense sometimes but it makes it feel like I'm watching TV. Not necessarily bad but I'm not a huge fan. That's about all I can say without giving away too much.

Cole's a clever guy but not unbelievably so and I recommend his adventures, especially the later ones, to all crime and mystery fans. View all 7 comments. Jan 19, Kemper rated it really liked it Shelves: , elvis-cole-joe-pike , crime-mystery , detectives. Elvis has never had a real clue about who his father was and thinks that the man was just another wack-a-doo that has come out of the woodwork following an unwelcome amount of publicity after his last case.

Still, even the possibility that the victim may have been his pops inspires Elvis to start trying to figure out who the man was and brings up a lot of old feelings as well as unknowingly putting him on a collision course with a killer. Once again Crais serves up an intriguing plot that zig-zags in unexpected directions. The previous two books, L. Requiem and The Last Detective , along with this one have filled a lot of the history of Elvis and his partner Joe Pike so that now they seem like fully formed characters with some serious damage in their pasts that cause them to hide behind the personas of smart ass detective and his bad ass buddy.

Another thing I liked in this is that the bad guy is crazy.

I mean crazy in the sense of crazy town banana pants. After so many portrayals of the insane villains also being brilliant in crime fiction, it was refreshingly terrifying to have a true Crazy McCrazyperson with poor impulse control and a shotgun lurking around. My one complaint on this one requires a massive spoiler. Parker Spenser novels done years earlier. This is a series in which the author has managed to raise the bar with almost every book. View all 8 comments. Apr 28, Wendy rated it really liked it Shelves: may , books.

I really enjoyed this 10th book in the "Elvis Cole" series! Apr 09, Mike rated it it was amazing. Cole is his son. In his younger years, Elvis, originally named Jimmy, was told his father was in the circus: a human cannonball. He has news clippings about Elvis's career, but no name.

Is there a chance? There's a big red herring here, which is very well done. Great characters, ba 3rd read - I've upped my star rating from the previous read because I'm appreciating the way Crais sets this up: The story starts with a dying man claiming P.

An officer has found a mortally wounded man, covered in tattoos, who says he's looking for "his son" - Elvis.

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Thus begins a mystery for our hero, who's never met the man. His mother, who had mental health issues, told him when he was young that his father was a human cannonball at the carnival. Elvis would run off to look for his dad multiple times, always brought back by investigators hired by his grandfather. Meanwhile, he juggles unresolved romance issues with his Louisiana honey, Lucy, and attentions from his police friend, Starky. We learn a little more of Elvis' childhood.

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Mar 04, Terence M rated it really liked it. Audiobook - hours - Narrator: James Daniels 4.

The story did become somewhat convoluted, but as I was confined to my bed at the time, I was able to listen to the entire book pretty much non-stop, finishing it in less than 24 hours, which made the convolutions easier to follow than when I do my normal fa Audiobook - hours - Narrator: James Daniels 4.

The story did become somewhat convoluted, but as I was confined to my bed at the time, I was able to listen to the entire book pretty much non-stop, finishing it in less than 24 hours, which made the convolutions easier to follow than when I do my normal fall-asleep, wake-up, find-my-place-in-the-book, listen, fall-asleep, tango.

A great novel from one of the great crime novelists. View 2 comments.

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Jan 09, Mark Baker rated it really liked it Shelves: , mystery. Could it be true? If so, what was he doing in the alley when he got shot?

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